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1.Αll hopes that the working class can get rid of austerity by voting and electing a “government of the left” collapsed very soon. SYRIZA won the election and formed a government. Not a government of the left, of course, but a collaboration government along with the extreme right nationalist party Independent Greeks (ANEL) and with various socialdemocrats. However, SYRIZA is the primary determinant of the governmental policy. And this government of “national salvation” (this is the term for class collaboration in the language of politics), after some bravado, entered an endless game of negotiating with creditors, with the troika, with imperialist institutions and with capitalists both in Greece and Europe.

2.There are conflicts in this negotiation between the government and the troika (IMF, ECB and EU). However none of the two sides represent the real interests or working people, the unemployed, the oppressed and the poor.

Intheelectionsof 25 ofJanuarytheGovernmentofmemorandumsandthepartiesthatmanaged the crisis of Greek capitalism with during the period of austerity have suffered a great defeat. The factor that demolished the government of New-Democracy and Pasok, as well as the previous bourgeois governments of memorandum was the pressure of the movement of the working class, the youth and the oppressed. Despitethecontradictionsandtheretractions, the strikes, the occupations, the demonstrationsand in general, the struggles of the last years bring a result, they can bring down governments and they are able to win.

Theinstabilityoftheregimeofthepoliticalsystem, whichcameasaresult of the crisis and the pressure of the movement was also a factor that made it possible for Syriza to come in power. The victory of a party that comes from the reformist left echoes the hopes of a vast part of the working class and the petit-bourgeois class to abolish the consequences of the crisis and austerity, hopes though, that in a big part are invested in the logic of representation and not the vivid participation.

Nationwide greek general strike on the 27th of November. We must use this strike as a turning point in order to escalate the worker’s resistance to the government’s and Troika’s new attacks upon them. We must turn this strike into a springboard of counterattack to take back all that has been stolen from the workers world during the last years of the memoranda policies. This day of nationwide general strike, must be the start of the government’s and its undeniable class war against the working class, ostracism. And above all, we must utilize said strike, in order to construct a labor movement worthy of enforcing to every government its measures to suffice the workers needs and rights today.

Another government of the capital, the co-government ND-PASOK, collapsed long before the expiration of its 4-year term. The government ended up in the trash bin not because of the non-capability of the political parties of the system (led by the capital to their dissolution the one after the other) to restore the capital gains. The reason of this collapse is the failure of Samaras and Venizelos to complete the negotiations with the Troika, as they were aware of the fact that they would not be capable of taking more measures needed, they would not be able of standing a new frontal collision with the labor movement.